Public interest in global warming has fallen sharply in the past few years
despite growing evidence that man-made emissions have altered the climate,
according to a study of people’s internet browsing habits.

The number of Google searches carried out worldwide for the phrase “global
warming” has fallen by 84 per cent since the peak in 2007.

There has been a significant decline in searches for phrases related to
climate change in all three of the main languages of the internet: English,
Mandarin and Spanish.

Researchers from the University of Oxford and Princeton University found that
interest in global warming peaked